Know Pain, Know Gain

“People will respect you for your successes, but they will love you for your failures.”

Brad Hart helps business owners, investors and philanthropists get connected with the right resources, network, opportunities and systems to help them move their business forward.

In this episode, Jay and Brad talk about how Brad’s business, Make More Marbles, accelerates success for entrepreneurs, and they explore the value in failures, and how self-care can optimize your relationship with your business.

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Episode Highlights:

00:49 What is Make More Marbles?

11:45 Brad’s Great Lesson From A Failure

18:15 Self Care = Great Work Relationship

28:15 Finding the Right Mastermind

44: 10 Fitting in the Right Mastermind

“There never was a winner that wasn’t a beginner.”

In this episode, Jay connects with Steve Pavlina, a long-time personal development guru that helps smart people and entrepreneurs expand their consciousness while growing themselves and their businesses.  Jay and Steve dive into the tactics that helped Steve's business grow. They also discuss how to co-create products with your target audience, and Steve shares some simple tips on how to better understand what your customers want.

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Episode Highlights:

01:18 Personal Development + Las Vegas

10:10 Personal Development + Support

22: 43 Personal Development + Transformation

30:10 Self Care + Care For Other People

42:22 Trust Is A Marketing Tactic

“Passion is dangerous, but passion is also essential.”

In this episode, Jay connects with an old rugby teammate and published author, Thomas Kohnstamm about the entrepreneurship of writing and pursuing a career in the creative arts.  Thomas lives in Seattle and has written two novels: "Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?" and most recently, "Lake City." Jay and Thomas talk about coming up against artistic integrity, how to incorporate feedback without getting broken, knowing your essence while remaining adaptable, and the dark side of ambition.  

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Episode Highlights:

01:51 The Joys of Being an Author

09:10 Artistic Integrity

26:55 The Demons of Ambition

32:28 Balancing Humility and Over Confidence

41:55 Thomas’ Life

“The first and most important concept is to recognize that action is only ⅓ of what’s necessary to put any specific thing into motion.”

In Jay's own words: "This is one of the best discussions we've had on the show on how to think like an entrepreneur as it relates to growing and scaling your business."  

Listen in to this rich conversation as Jay and Alexander Ford discuss how to effectively scale, being deliberate about planning your culture, decision fatigue, and management as a skill set.  If you're looking to scale your business and uplevel your management game, this is one episode you don't want to miss....

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Episode Highlights:

00:57 What is Measurable Genius?

09:20 Strategy - Production - Management

20:05 A Compassionate Service Provider

25:34: Active and Passive System

35:45 Alexander's Scaling Secret

“If you’re not able to leave the business and the business’ function. What you have honestly is worth nothing, because no one will ever buy it. It means it’s not a business it’s just a job.”  

In this episode, Pol Cousineau drops a strong Canadian accent and some wisdom nuggets around how business owners should be thinking about digital marketing, and how to adopt practices to get out of your own way so you can scale.  Jay and Pol also have an insightful dialogue on how mindset shifts connect to marketing, scale and knowing where you are in your business's entrepreneurial journey.

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Episode Highlights:

02:00 TheDigitalNavigator.com

10:10 Making The Transition From Employee To Entrepreneur

14:53 The Achilles Heel of Growing Business

33:23 The Importance of Communication and Honesty to your Service Provider

37:11 Pol’s Story as a Digital Navigator

“I can’t do it alone. I have a great idea, but an idea without support, is just an idea.”

In this episode, Jay talks with serial entrepreneur, and founder of NextGen Chef, Justine Reichman about aligning passion, opportunity and impact so that entrepreneurs can find their operating sweetspots.  Justine gives some killer advice around identifying clarity in your business model and a laser-focused understanding of who are you and what role you play in running your business. Justine also talks about the inspiration behind pursuing a heart-based business focused on driving social change, and so much more...

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Episode Highlights:

00:55 NextGen Chef’s Mission

09:05 Positive Change

22:23 The Importance of Choosing the Right Journey

29:00 Delivering Vision with Support

41:04 The Process of Learning

“Is your mind using you or are you using it?”

In this episode, Jay interviews Alain Torres, an expert on navigating the human mind and achieving our potential.  Jay and Alain discuss how mindfulness serves as one of the most effective levers to grow our businesses while simultaneously enhancing our enjoyment of life.  They explore meditation, plant-based hallucinogens, and how being selfish can actually be the most powerful act of selflessness. Alain wraps up the episode by offering a free gift to our listeners.  

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Episode Highlights:

03:43 Alian’s Inner Power

08:22 Type A’s and Modernization

16:34 Is your mind using YOU or Are YOU using it?  

26:14 Which DC or Marvel Superhero Are You?

43:55 Self Love

“We need to make sure that we are not exposing our vulnerability to people that don’t need access to it.”

In this episode, Jay interviews Vicki Fitch, who dubs herself an "Inspirationist," Author and Speaker. Vicki is on an insane mission to write 12 books in 12 months.  

Listen in as Vicki shares her insights from working with clients who are trying to move into a higher performing version of themselves.  Jay and Vicky explore some of the focal points of her books and go deep on such topics as "not enough syndrome," pursuing something bigger than you've ever done before, believing in yourself and the faith necessary to finally defeat your inner-bully.  

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Episode Highlights:

00:55 Vicki Fitch the Inspirationalist

09:03 The Fitch Slap

22:34 Protecting our Vulnerability from the Bullies

37:22 The NOT ENOUGH Syndrome

43:44 Vicki Fitch the Hope Dealer

“Do what you love and the rest will come.”

If you've ever met someone and said: "Wow, I want your life," Matt Poole is that guy.  Matt started his career as a travel writer (in the ancient days when people used travel books), and that opportunity afforded Matt the ability to turn his passion into a profession.

Turns out when you follow your heart, opportunity presents itself more often than not. Inspiration would invite Matt to launch two other ventures: launching one of the early e-commerce travel companies, and most recently launching a digital marketing company called www.2minute2ers.com.

Listen in as Jay and Matt talk about releasing the fear of loss, following your passion, staying focused, knowing where the market is going, and so much more.

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Episode Highlights:

02:30 STOP Overspending

07:25 Unbox Your Business

16:00 Why 2minutes?

32:15 Don't Stop Making Mistakes

46:49 Choosing the Right partner

“It comes down to authenticity. If you’re able to show who you are and make it real, it really helps.”

In this episode, Jay talks to Will Braunstein, CEO of USA RX about creating businesses that are scalable. Will is a serial entrepreneur and advisor with several successful exits who shares his story of how his pursuit of entrepreneurship has evolved over the years.

As Will relates, knowing what you want and being who you are can give you new perspectives-the key to getting to new heights. “Business is about the people and the company.”

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Episode Highlights:

02:20 Profit While Saving Health While Saving Money

20:10 Keeping the Inspiration

30:30 Passion Business

31:52 Finding the Right Guy for the Job

39:39 Advising Myself